CD burning program

[Frank Pirrone]

Justin Bennett wrote:

>CDR-bq works well, only thing I don't like is you have to type (or copy)
>in the file name to make audio CDs out of MP3s, this can be a little bit
>of a hassle. So I did a little investigating, for those who are interested
>(maybe nobody), Gnome Toaster version 1.0.beta5 that ships with redhat 8.0
>is really nice. Drag and drop for Mp3 to Audio CDs, and data. Bootable
>CDs, buffer underun protection. Only problem is Redhat weasled out and and
>didn't ship MP3 libraries with 8.0 they didn't want to have to shell out
>$$$ like beOs did. You even need to download xmms and install that if you
>want to listen to MP3s (the version that ships won't play mp3s, but if
>your willing to convert your 40GB mp3 collection to ogg-vorbis you'll be
>fine). So you need to install MPG123 seperately (to do the conversion to
>wav to burn to cd), and configure gnometoaster to the location of it, if
>you want to burn cds from MP3s. Other than the initial setup it's as nice
>as some of the commercial windows cd buring software packages.
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>Justin
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>Cyber Source said:
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>>Here it is, for all that would like it as well, CDR-BQ
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>>On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 10:51, Justin Bennett wrote:
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>>    Hey Pete,
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>>      2 meetings ago you showed me a CD buring program (like cdbbq or
>>    something) that was pretty good, what was that again?
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>>    Justin
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Justin et al.

Yeah, CD burining in Linux has matured nicely.  GToaster is a fine app, 
but also take a look at XCDRoast, ERoaster, and GCombust as well.  I 
think ERoaster has the most Windoze-like interface if that matters.  

Frank